Sunday, August 17, 2008

Moleskine Storyboard Notebook

One of my purchases during my recent bout of BEAS disease *(Buys Excessive Art Supplies) was a Moleskine Storyboard Notebook there are 82 boxes 2.1875" x 2.75" or for you metric types 5.5 cm x 7 cm. I have labeled each of the first 82 boxes with EDM challenges 1-82. I have completed six of the challenge boxes with little drawings. Actually the bag is not yet done and the lamp is overdone -- never-the-less --I plan to complete the remaining 76 boxes -

But.... there are 152 smaller boxes- four per page - on the last 38 pages. They are 1.1875" x 1.435" or 3.7 cm x 3.9 cm - What were they thinking? those are really very tiny boxes - I don't know if I can work that small - what can I do with the last ONE HUNDRED FIFTY TWO tiny boxes??? --bug drawings?? any suggestions will be appreciated.

This is really cool - I like the boxes. Now I want one of these too :)Your drawings are wonderful. In the really small boxes - there are already good ideas - really small objects, or different views or sections of the same object, or drawings that span the boxes. Should be fun!

Maybe you could also treat them like panes of a window? Your small challenges are delightful! ps I've just popped by my blog "http://seesue.blogspot.com" and saw your question regarding palate for a TINY paintbox. My answer is tinfoil. You can fold it up tiny over and over and it's a pretty good representation of colour as well.

Ha! I suffer from that disease, too! I also have one of those storyboard books,but have yet to do anything with it. It's fun to read your commenters' suggestions. I wish I could help you with my own suggestions.... I do like what you've done so far.

This moleskine with windows is great, I'd like it for EDM challenges as well, must look around town:)Lovely sketches, the teddy especially*I have some ideas, too, for the little window...you cam make collections of really small objects every two pages..like your jewelery, leaves, what you find on a walk...or as CEM said, draw over the boxes, and write comments in the boxes...or, getting a bit more ambitious:)...why not draw a picture story?:) I'm getting excited myself:)) I MUST find this window moleskine!!

Try anything! I've learned to work small doing jewelry. Tiny trees and forests, animals, fish, I do gold painted giraffes on earrings 1 inch high! I remember seeing a post about "inchies" sp? somewhere. You learn to simplify. Good luck.

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I was recently diagnosed with stage IV small cell lung cancer - so I am enjoying my life and living one day at a time - Making art makes me happy.
I play hammered dulcimer and that makes me happy too.
I have a great husband and our two grown children are married so now we have four wonderful children. I am fortunate to have a close, loving, extended and immediate family.